Limmud also asked its Twitter and Facebook followers to donate clothes for adults and children, as well as pillows, blankets and towels. Executive director Raymond Simonson said youth movements were also being contacted to recruit helpers to bring supplies to the Limmud office.

"This is a very simple, practical, hands-on, low key response to what is going on," he said. "We want to show those people who have suffered and have lost much of their stuff that they are not alone.

"London is not made up just of those break things, but those who try and repair a damaged world – tikkun olam in a pure sense."

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